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Tote Deploys AI Employee Agent With Loop Neighborhood Markets

Tote, the AI-native point-of-sale platform built for fuel and convenience retail, has deployed its Genie AI agent with Loop Neighborhood Markets, a California-based convenience retailer operating more than 50 locations. Since launch, the tool has handled associate inquiries across customer service, POS operations, maintenance and payments with 100 percent first-contact resolution and zero escalations to […]

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Hillphoenix Launches Next Generation Flex Mini CO2 Refrigeration System

Hillphoenix, part of Dover Food Retail and Dover, has launched the Next Generation Flex Mini, a CO2 transcritical refrigeration system designed for food retail and industrial applications. Built around serviceability and energy efficiency in a compact footprint, the Flex Mini platform supports two compressor brand configurations, giving operators flexibility to match existing technical standards or […]

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Ravyx Promotes Desroches To Chief Technology Officer

Ravyx has promoted Francis Desroches to chief technology officer, overseeing customer outcome initiatives, managing strategic vendor partnerships and expanding collaboration efforts across North America. Desroches has been with the company since 2015, joining when it operated under the SIR Solutions name. During his tenure, he has helped build the company’s operational infrastructure, led development of […]

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TRUNO Becomes First Certified Partner Of Toshiba’s ELERA Commerce Platform

TRUNO Retail Technology Solutions has become the first certified partner authorized to sell and deliver the ELERA Commerce Platform by Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, giving retailers across North America a new channel to access Toshiba’s AI-driven POS and commerce architecture. TRUNO can implement ELERA with retail customers without requiring a traditional rip-and-replace of current store […]

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Birdzi Launches Natural Language BI Tool, AskKea

Birdzi has released AskKea, a generative business intelligence (BI) assistant that lets grocery retailers query their data using plain-English questions and receive decision-ready answers in minutes instead of days. AskKea is designed for non-analysts. Store managers and marketing teams can ask questions directly and receive clear answers, visual summaries, exportable data files, methodology explanations and […]

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Huck’s Market Becomes First C-Store To Deploy AI-Native POS Chainwide

Huck’s Market has gone live with an artificial intelligence-native point-of-sale system at its flagship location in Carmi, Illinois, becoming the first c-store chain to deploy the technology in-store. The employee-owned 135-store Midwest chain partnered with Tote, an AI-native POS platform built for fuel and convenience retail, with a chainwide rollout planned for completion by the […]

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NRS, Krasdale Foods Form Partnership To Support Independent Bodegas

National Retail Solutions and Krasdale Foods have announced a strategic partnership, combining NRS’s point-of-sale technology with the grocer’s distribution network to serve independently owned bodegas and small-format stores across the Northeast. Developed over several years, the collaboration integrates NRS’s store-management platform with Krasdale’s supply-chain capabilities to deliver operational efficiency, data insights and profitability tools for […]

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Spinx Selects Tote.AI For POS, Foodservice Technology

The Spinx Company has selected Tote.AI to provide point-of-sale, self-service kiosks and foodservice technology across all 96 convenience stores in the Carolinas, the Greenville, South Carolina-based retailer announced in early February. The AI-native platform will unify Spinx’s ordering, checkout and kitchen technology into a single system. The rollout will begin in the second half of […]